Job 34:6
Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
BSB
ASV
Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
KJV
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
For Job hath said, I am just, and God hath subverted my judgment. For in judging me there is falsehood: and mine arrow is violent without any sin. He complains that Job had spoken these things, [See chap. 27, 2] which the words of the sacred history prove on examination that he had never said. But he, who had sought for a judgment on equal terms, proceeds to promulgate a sentence from a fault of his own invention.
Should I lie against my right?.... No; I ought not: this though Job had not said in so many words, yet this seems to be his sense in Job 27:4; that should he own and say that he was a wicked man, a hypocrite, and destitute of the grace of God, he should not only speak against himself, but, contrary to his conscience, say an untruth, and not do justice to his character.
Should I lie against my right? - Should I acknowledge myself the sinner which they paint me, and thus lie against my right to assert and maintain my innocence? My wound is incurable without transgression - If this translation is correct, the meaning of the place is sufficiently evident. In the tribulation which I endure, I am treated as if I were the worst of culprits; and I labor under incurable maladies and privations, though without any cause on my part for such treatment.
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Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
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For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
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Job 16:13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
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It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of…